The National Westminster Bank
24, BANK STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1133063
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 24, BANK STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-05-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/07469/21
- Rights:
- © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1133063
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, BANK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 8 AND 10, PIECE HALL YARD
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 7, HUSTLEGATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 24, BANK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 10, PIECE HALL YARD
- Statutory Address:
- THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 7, HUSTLEGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16375 33155
Details
1. 5111 HUSTLERGATE BD1
No 7 SE 1633 SW 36/685 (The National Westminster Bank)
II*
2. Includes No 24 Bank Street and Nos 8 and 10 Piece Hall Yard. Important corner site with fronts to Bank Street and Piece Hall Yard. Built as the Bradford Commercial Bank and completed to the designs of Andrews and Pepper in 1868. Elaborate Gothic with mid C13 detail, complementing the Wool Exchange. Two-storeys and attics, millstone grit ashlar with sandstone and polished granite dressings. The corner is emphasised by a square 3-storey tower with a pierced, pinnacled, parapet and surmounted by a steep truncated slate roof with large lucarne dormers and wrought iron cresting. The windows and doors have pink or grey granite shaft colonettes, the foliate capital mouldings continued as impost bands. Drip moulds on head stops. The first floor windows are of 2-lights with quatrefoils piercing the tympani. The first floor windows on the corner tower have applied crocketed gables and give onto pierced stone balconies. Above the first floor is a corbelled pierced stone parapet with sharply gabled dormers set behind. The banking hall has a corbelled vaulted ceiling divided into panels decorated with Coats of Arms.
Listing NGR: SE1637533155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 04-Jun-2026 at 14:06:15.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.